Climate change

Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about six times more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday, reports AFP. 

The world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday, reports AFP. 

The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports that suggested a so-called pause in global warming in recent years.

Greece and other countries of Southern Europe, as well as Turkey, are seen facing increased water shortages over the next 30 years, according to a report this month by the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC).

Nations on Dec. 16 struck a deal to breathe life into the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon U.N. talks that failed to match the ambition the world's most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming.

Climate change increases the risk of an 'extinction domino effect' that could annihilate all life on Earth, researchers have warned, reports Daily Mail.    

The theory, known as 'co-extinctions', means an organism dies out because it depends on another doomed species.

The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said Thursday, warning that the time to act was running out, reports AFP. 

Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster.

Households' electricity rates may be about to rise again. According to Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis, the major increase in the price of carbon emissions places a great burden on Public Power Corporation (PPC) that needs to be shared.

Professionals and low-to-medium-voltage industries are the first categories of electricity consumers to be hit with power rate hikes due to the increase in carbon emission rights prices.

AFP - With 2018 shaping up as the fourth hottest year on record, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world must take action in the next two years to avert the disastrous consequences of runaway climate change.

"Climate change is the defining issue of our time -- and we are at a defining moment," Guterres said in an address at UN headquarters in New York.